2009/4/17 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2009/4/17 Andre Krause <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hello EIGEN - List,
>>
>> i want to point you to the lib FLENS. It provides a C++ Interface to BLAS and
>> LAPACK in a expression template manner. I am mentioning flens here, because it
>> may be a source of inspiration for further eigen2 design desicions.
>
> Do you have something specific in mind? We took the different approach
> of replacing BLAS and LAPACK, rather than wrapping around them.
> Although there is work left to do, we are at the point where, given
> sufficient contributions, we can hope to quickly become a complete
> enough replacement for a vast majority of users.
To be clear: a patch allowing to optionally use BLAS or LAPACK as
backends for certain operations, would be welcome, as long as it
doesn't require the whole design of Eigen to get more complicated.
But I meant that the core design of Eigen is essentially fixed now for
the 2.x series, so there won't be many big "design decisions" in the
foreseeable future.
Cheers,
Benoit